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Show Second Billion-Doll- Y ear ar Looms Mining Production On Target for Record Year Continued From Page 24 strietive legislation now before Congress could choke off growth of mining in the state. If that happens, the losers will be the people of our state and nation who depend on products from the ground agriculturto sustain the standard of al and mineral living we enjoy today and achieve a better quality of life in the years ahead, Mr. Christensen said. Coal production in Utah, which hit a near record eight million tons last year, will probably top that level by a nother million tons in 1977, he predicted. But coal price will probably stay around $20 a ton. How important are minerals to Utah? Consider the mined minerals alone. Utah had a copper production of $240 million in 1976; clays, $633,000; gypsum, $1,528,000; lead, $7,373,000; lime, $5,940,000; salt, $10,280,000; sand and Developing Of Tar gravel, $21,523,000; zinc, $16,395,000. and approach to environmental development and regulation on the public lands, growth and exonomic benefits should increase, he said. He noted that 70 per cent of the land in Utah, including most of the mineral resources, is owned and controlled by the federal government. Earlier this year, association leaders fired off protests against proposed Bureau of Land Management regulations which would add to the complexity and costs of prospecting and mining in the name of environmental protection. Their efforts and those of industry peers across the nation apparently had result; a number of hearings are to take place before any new regulations go into effect. Samuel S. Arentz, veteran Utah mining engineer, commented that the proposed rules would have denied access to the public domain by the individual prospector or miner, and limit mineral exploration and development to a few large corporations with the financial resources to use helicopters and to employ the manpower required to fill out the innumerable forms and applications demanded by an increasingly arbitrary bureaucracy. Viewpoint Noted Had the proposed rules been enforced for the past 150 years, most of the West would still be inaccessible and the United States and the world would be immeasurably poorer. Kenneth R. Poulson, manager of the Mining Division of Brush Wellman, Inc., added: The need for a continued source of new mineral resources is now more evident than ever before. Lets not destroy the incentive of those who have provided the exploration and development efforts so necessary to locate and place in production the new mineral resources so vitally needed. As the Utah mining industry fights to grow and serve future needs of state and nation, those in the states oldest basic industry are more united and outspoken than ever before, Mr. Christensen said. More Members This unity was demonstrated in 1976 by the largest growth in membership the association has achieved in a single year since founding, he said. Seventeen new corporate members joined last year, he said, reflecting Utahs future potential for minerals development and the growing awareness that miners must work together on issues involving government and environment. We are a Worldwide Corporation doing business locally ALT LAKE CITY! Leisurely a, $13,144,000, Some Increases Most of these values were up from the previous year. And given a reasonable Sands? The nation is facing an energy shortage. Within Utah are about 26 to 30 billion barrels of oil contained in its sandstone deposits or about 90 to 95 percent of the nations total tar sands resource. But activity could best be said to have continued at leisurely pace" in Utah in 1976, says Howard R. Ritz-mthe Utah Geological and Mineral Surveys oil shale specialist. Most of the deposits are on federal lands. But no progress has been noted in developing and leasing policy for those resources. The informal moratorium on such leasing, in force since 1965, has effectively stopped development of most tar sand resources outside of the Uintah Basin. silver, Ill Parker DOING BUSINESS THROUGH Hannifin PARKER PACKING CO. We believe in playing an active part in this community we live and do business in. And we think that what makes Parker Packing a little bit different is our ATTITUDE . . . We WANT our personnel to become involved in this community. We are PROUD of our tremendous growth here, built upon efficient service, product quality an dependability. We RESPOND to meet the everyday demands and changing needs of our customers. We AIM toward the relationship with you that brings continued progress, both yours and ours. Only Active Job The only active project in the state was on the north Asphalt Ridge area near Vernal where the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration continued work on its reverse combustion fire flood project. Another attempt at in situ production of oil from the J areas rich sandstone is planned for summer on the Northwest deposit. Sohio Petroleum Co. provided 10 acres of land for the project cost-fre- e and has now extended the agreement for another three years. Meanwhile, on the southeast end of the Asphalt Ridge small scale mining continued on properties controlled by Sohio through state and private leasing. Mined materials have been stockpiled for processing in a pilot plant which has been under construction for several years. The operator is Aminoil USA, Inc., successor in 1976 to Burmah Oil Co. 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